2 posts tagged “paying attention”
Everywhere i walk today, the birds are going nutty.
an angry black bruise at my wrist from last night's IV.
a mandatory meet & greeting of the new library dean.
the dome of the auditorium visible thru the trees.
6 men getting off the bus at the liquor store.
an old console television waiting for the garbage collectors.
everywhere i look, flags, flags, flags.
a rose bush growing from a turquoise plastic bucket.
a large-bottomed girl wearing a tight fringed denim skirt with high heels; a man on the bus turning his head hard to check her out.
secret sidewalk chalk messages from someone to someone else.
book: Solar Wind Eight, proceedings of the Eighth International Solar Wind Conference, Dana Point, CA, June, 1995.
my friend "Happy" the tibetan buddhist monk.
an old black man wearing a cowboy hat and a shiny leather vest (with no shirt underneath).
the blackened burned frame of a love seat, cast into the street.
A full bottle of louisiana hot sauce sitting on a fence post.
an old grey and peach kitty curled up on Michael and Joseph's welcome mat.
half a cd, abandoned in the gutter
a drop of diluted blood rolling down the back of my knee.
a grasshopper as big as my thumb, flying thru the air.
three crows circling the belfry of the methodist church down the street.
multiple cars refusing to respect the sacred institute of the crosswalk. (fuckers)
a juvenile squirrel being tormented by a robin.
the red-tailed hawk ejecting about a quart of poo from his sharply raised tail.
a brown leather lace on the ground.
a drunk man shuffling by me and saying 'good morning.'
a white mustang full of white boys blasting public enemy.
a fat bearded white man in a tie-dyed shirt and carrying a lancôme bag full of peaches.
church sign: SPIRIT OF THE LIVING GOD FALL FRESH ON ME!
a red & purple plastic kids bike thing (with a trailer!)
a butterfly hovering over an empty, lidless antifreeze bottle.
a rabbit dashing across garbage strewn lot.
church sign: PICKING AND GRINNING SUNDAY.
14 white plastic swan planters crowding a tiny yard.
a black "leather" sofa covered with pollen & tree detritus.
me getting motion sick on the bus.
six blue & white plastic pinwheels spinning on a grave.
tables of used items spread out for sale on every corner.
church sign: JESUS THE HEALER.
a blackened and desiccated frog in the gutter.
a loose dog being struck by a car as he crossed the street. i held his bloody head in my lap til the police and animal control arrived.
the calendar changed to july.
a half-empty jug of grape juice sitting on the sidewalk.
a large shard of clear glass projecting out from between my toes & the jutting pulse of red after i quietly pulled it out.
large spastic ants raining down from the tree branches and running across my knees.
dozens of tiny red origami cranes spilled across the path to the library.
